Attachment for garment hangers



' Sept: 11, 1923. 1,467.298

A. C. BARKER ATTACHMENT FOR GARMENT HANGERS Filed June 6, 1922 J MWVW a;

Patented Sept. 11, 1923.

UNITED STATES rarer oric.

, ALICE o. AR ER, or ALLS'ION, BOSTON, ransseonusn'rrs, I

"ATTACHMENT non GARMENT HANGERS.

To all whom it may concern Be. it known that I, ALICE C..BARKER, a citizen of the UnitedSta-tes of America, and resident of Allston, Boston, in the county of Sufiolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Garment Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

Garment hangers .in common use are not adapted to securely retain garments thereon. Even when carefully hung thereon garments frequently slideoif andfall to the floor where-they become mussed and soiled. This defect causes considerable losses to retail stores selling clothing, since the soiled garments often have to be sold at a reduction. Moreover the ease with which a garment may be slipped from a hanger is no small factor in the successful operations of shoplifters.

Objects of the invention are to prevent garments from readily slipping from hangers, to interfere with the hasty removal of garments from hangers by unauthorized persons, to construct an attachment for hangers which will secure the above objects, which is inexpensive to manufacture, and which can be quickly applied to existing hangers without making changes therein, and in general to remedy the defects of the ordinary garment hanger.

For the purpose of illustrating the invention one concrete embodiment thereof is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view;

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing the attachment on a different form of hanger;

Fig. 3 is a plan view from Fig. 2;

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view showing the device in use.

The embodiment of the invention shown for the purpose of illustration is disclosed as adapted to garment hangers in common use such as the hanger A shown in Fig. 1 having diverging arms a and a and a hook a or the hanger B shown in Fig. 2 having diverging arms I) and b and a book 6 The invention comprises strips 5 and 6 of flexible material preferably fabric such as webbing or tape, which is relatively nonelastic, attached to the arms a and a or b and ja ent the r ends in y suit ble Application filed June 6,

1922. Serial No;' 566,308.

manner. The free ends of the striparepro- 'vided with suitable fastening means such as a snap fastener," thesocket 7 of which. is at tached to one of the stripsas strip5 and the ball section to the other strip as strip 6. The strips are shown hanging loose in Fig.1 and as fastened together in Fig. 2, thereby making a flexible connection between the diverging arms of the hanger. z In its preferred form the attachment comprises a relatively long strip or strap 9 -of flexible material'such as webbi'ng'or tape, the free ends of which form the strips, 5 and .6 previously described. The means for fastening the strip on the hanger may comprise an eyeletted opening or hole 10 in the webbing through which hook a or b of the hanger passes, hole 10 then being disposed around the shank of the hook adjacent the top of the hanger as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. From the hook the strip extends along the top of arms a, and a or b and b, as shown, and is securely held. thereon adjacent the arms by bands or loops of elastic material stitched or otherwise fastened thereto, the elastic bands being slipped over the free ends of the arms of the hanger in an obvious manner. The fabric strip 9 covering the smooth upper surface of the diverging arms of the hanger offers frictional resistance to the slipping of a garment when the device is in use.

Fig. 4; illustrates the method of using a hanger provided with the attachment herein disclosed. The free ends 5 and 6 of the attachment pass through the arm holes of the garment and are fastened together at the back thereof by the fastening means such as the snap fastener 7, 8. The flexible connection thus made by strips 5 and 6 across, the back of the garment between the arms does not detract in any ance of the garment as seen from the front, and securely holds the garment against accidental movement thereof and interferes with the removal therefrom by unauthorized persons. Moreover, the frictional resistance afforded by the strip 9 across the top of the hanger tends to retain the garment as first arranged on the hanger, and prevents it from slipping to one side or the other so as to hang in an unsightly manner. Sinceno nails, tacks, pinsvor similar metal parts are u e about he atta hment there is nothin way from the appeararms length :to permit them "to" be fastened together to form a flexible connection between to oppose frictional resistance to the slipping movement of a garment along said the ends of said I strip being of a the -:arms to *securely reta-in a -'garment thereon.

. 2' The combination with a garmenthanger having a supporting hook :and arms diverging therefrom, of a fabric: strip :disposecl upon said arms, and-means .including'membersof elastic material encircling the arms to retain the strip upon thehanger, the ends of said strip having fastening :means wherewhy: said-ends maybe fastened :together to form a flexible connection between said arms to securely hold a garment thereon.

, 3. An attachment for 'garment hangers comprising a fabric stripadapted 'to be attached to a hanger along the upper surface thereof, the attaching means including a hole in the strip'throug'h which the shank of thehookeXtendm-rand fastening means on the ends of the strip adapting the latter to be fastened: together to form a flexible connection across the hanger to hold a garment thereon.

4;. An attachment for garment hangers comprising a'* strap adapted to extend between the opposite' -arms' of the hanger-, and

- means for attaching the-strap to the hanger "comprising lo ops encircling the arms ithereof and an opening through which the hook -on the hanger may extend, the strap havinga I detachable fastener wherebyzit mayzbe op'ened to-r-eceive a garment.

* Signed by? me at 'Boston, Massachusetts,

- this second day of June 1922.

A-LIGE. Gl B-ABKER. 

